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No toys on the bouncing castle, Boing, boing, boing, boing.
No toys on the bouncing castle, Boing, boing, boing.
Repeat the song, but the group holds the edges of the real parachute, moving it up and down to the pulse. “If everyone listens well I will put some toys on top.” Place one soft toy or finger puppet on top and sing:
One toy on the bouncing castle, Boing, boing, boing, boing.
One toy on the bouncing castle, Boing, boing, boing.
Add a second toy on top and sing “Two toys...” Repeat for up to ten toys. Then place as many soft toys and finger puppets as you have (so there are up to about 20 all together) on top and skip to singing “Lots of toys on the bouncing castle etc.”. Don’t worry if they fall off. They always do!
7. MUSICAL BUMPS: ‘Shake It Off’ by Taylor Swift
a) Ask the children if they know the game Musical Bumps. Tell them that they’re going
to play a game a little bit like musical bumps and that if they can beat you to win,
you will give them all a Haribo treat.
b) Explain that they are going to be princesses and knights and you are going to give
them a musical treasure (egg shaker) each.
c) When the music plays they must march their treasures to the royal palace
(demonstrate as you tell them). When the music stops it means the scary dragon is coming and so they must sit on their magic thrones (demonstrate jumping down to sit as you say this) for protection so the dragon can’t burn their treasures. “If everyone sits on their magic thrones really quickly when the music stops, you will all win a Haribo treat.”
d) “I am going to turn into the scary dragon every time the music stops.”
e) Give each child a musical treasure.
f) Play ‘Shake it Off’ and the children march around the room and shake their musical
treasures.
g) Pause the music and pretend to be the dragon. The children jump down and sit in
their magic thrones. You get grumpy because they’ve managed to escape you. “I’ll
get you next time!” Try to be as silly as you can to make the children laugh.
h) Repeat several times until you confess that the princesses and knights have beaten you and delivered the musical treasures to the royal palace. You cry and say “I want
my mummy!”
i) Walk away and when you turn back you are no longer the scary dragon. Tell the
children that you’ve turned back into a princess/knight, congratulate them and tell them you will give them their Haribo prize before you go home.
8. ACTION SONG OR POEM: ‘There Was a Princess Long Ago’ by Traditional The children are standing in a circle and holding hands. Ask the birthday girl if she would like to be the special princess (if not ask them if they’d like a friend to be the princess with them or choose another child) and give her a tiara to wear. The chosen child stands in the middle of the circle. The group sings the first verse and walks around the princess in a circle. * Birthday girls aged 3-4 will usually prefer to have a friend in the middle with them.
There was a princess long ago, long ago, long ago, There was a princess long ago. Long, long ago.
(children in the circle lift their arms up to be the walls of the tower) She lived in a big high tower, big high tower, big high tower.
She lived in a big high tower. Long, long ago.
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